Death year 1948 celebrities
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Donald Brian (February 17, 1877 – December 22, 1948) was an actor, dancer and singer born St. John’s, Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), at the age of eighteen was crowned “King of Broadway” by the New York Times in 1907. Brian
William John Sweeney (March 6, 1886 in Covington, Kentucky – May 26, 1948 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an infielder in Major League Baseball from 1907 to 1914. He graduated from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Meir Tobianski (Hebrew: מאיר טוביאנסקי) also Tubianski (20 May 1904, Kovno – 30 June 1948) was an officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who was executed as a traitor on circumstantial evidence on the orders of Isser Be’eri,
Karl Gustav Vollmöller (or Vollmoeller) (May 7, 1878 – October 18, 1948) was a German playwright and screenwriter.
Eddy Chandler (March 12, 1894 – March 23, 1948) was an American actor who appeared in more than 300 films. Three of these films won the Academy Award for Best Picture: It Happened One Night (1934), You Can’t Take It with You (1938), and Gone with t
Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 27, 1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, novelist, and journalist. With her husband George Cram Cook she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theater co
Marjory Stephenson, MBE, FRS (24 January 1885 – 12 December 1948) was a British biochemist. In 1945, she was one of the first two women (the other being Kathleen Lonsdale) elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Wilfred Noy (24 December 1883 – 29 March 1948) was an English film director, actor, screenwriter and producer of the silent era. He directed 89 films between 1910 and 1936. He also appeared in 18 films between 1924 and 1939.
Gregg Toland, A.S.C. (May 29, 1904 – September 28, 1948) was an American cinematographer noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, examples of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane and John
Princess Victoria Louise Sophia Augusta Amelia Helena of Schleswig-Holstein (3 May 1870 – 13 March 1948), known as Princess Helena Victoria, was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Na Hyeseok (Hangul: 나혜석; hanja: 羅蕙錫, 28 April 1896 – 10 December 1948) was a Korean feminist, poet, writer, painter, educator, and journalist. Her pen name was Jeongwol (Hangul: 정월, 晶月). She was a pioneering Korean feminist wr
Biography by Hal Erickson [-]American comic actor Edgar Kennedy left home in his teens, smitten with the urge to see the world. He worked a number of manual labor jobs and sang in touring musical shows before returning to his native California in 19